Monstermob
 

At the beginning of 2001, a previous business associate contacted me offering a bit of work creating a few pixel images for Nokia phones, the very first logos, picture messages and wallpapers that accompanied the ringtone explosion. I’d been learning digital drawing by trial and error for three or four years, drummed a few up and within weeks I was generously contracted to supply graphic content to Monstermob, who were at the forefront of the UK’s mobile phone entertainment industry. With Julie by my side researching, we churned out thousands of slogans, buzzwords and tiny pictures that, via the web, press and magazine adverts, graced the screens of millions of phones all over the country. 

As Monstermob’s success surged, I progressed to animations and supplying graphics and ideas for promotions. By 2004, my share of the Smut Comic business debt was cleared, along with my responsibility for my ex-business partner’s debt. It was an immense relief as one part of our past was behind us, but the other continued to malevolently trouble us, financially as well as mentally, for a further five years.

Following a restructuring at Monstermob, I was offered an ungenerous renewed contract, which I just couldn’t commit to and sign, so became unemployed again.

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